Ehrenpreis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: veronica, speedwell (plant of the genus Veronica)
/ɛɹənpɹiɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ehrenpreis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
- ILIsrael≈1 in 5Mas אהרנפרייס
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ehrenpreis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1M (inferred from the name graph)
107 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled אהרנפרייס in IL Israel.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
veronica, speedwell (plant of the genus Veronica)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ehrenpreis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 107 | 1 in 3.1M | 112 | — | 3 |
| IL Israel | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 5M | — | אהרנפרייס | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | 16 | — | — |
107 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the ee-stat-nimed register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ehrenpreis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from 'honor prize'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Andreas Ehrenpreisb. 1589DEGerman preacher
- Mordecai Ehrenpreisb. 1869SESwedish rabbi (1869–1951)
- Rebekka Ehrenpreisb. 1874CZHolocaust victim (born 1874)
- Cilli Ehrenpreisb. 1877CZHolocaust victim (born 1877)
- Bernard Ehrenpreisb. 1898M.D. (1898-1976)
- Irvin Ehrenpreisb. 1920USAmerican literary scholar (1920–1985)
- Leon Ehrenpreisb. 1930USAmerican mathematician (1930–2010)
- Ira EhrenpreisUSfounder and managing partner of DBL Partners
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 112 | #147,954 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 109 | #140,756 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 107 | #152,628 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 16 | #6,913 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 14 | #8,105 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #21,113 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ehrenpreis mean, and where does it come from?
- veronica, speedwell (plant of the genus Veronica) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ehrenpreis?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛɹənpɹiɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ehrenpreis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 107 people named Ehrenpreis, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ehrenpreis most common?
- Ehrenpreis is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ehrenpreis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 107 people named Ehrenpreis in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ehrenpreisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ehrenpreis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.